The top story on our Trend Tracker this afternoon: Now that the debt deal is done, Congressional Leaders have started to name designees to the deal’s “Super Committee.” Read about 9 of the 12 appointees atfirstread.msnbc.com.

At number two, Wisconsin is back in the headlines after a Democratic recall push came up short on Tuesday.The New York Times explained why some analysts were looking to Wisconsin to "gauge of voters’ moods, at least in one battleground state, in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election."